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In the 2009 EP elections the Party candidated its secretary, Alessandro Bottoni, as an independent in Sinistra e Libertà in the Northern-Oriental Italy circoscription, gaining 820 preferences but not gaining the seat in the EP parliament.[8][9]

In 2011 Marco Manuel Marsili founded a political party named "Partito Pirata" with Jolly Roger on an orange background as symbol. It initially included the signet of the Pirate Party International. It caused a legal dispute, followed by an order from the court of Milan on 30 March 2012, which obliged the Marsili's party not to use the Pirate Party symbols in order to protect the name and the symbol of the Italian Pirate Party.[10][11] The court sentenced for a fine for every violation and condemned Manuel Marco Marsili to pay the litigation costs.[12][13]

In December 2011 the Party changed its statute and is the first organization to replace its board by a permanent virtual assembly using the LiquidFeedback platform.[1][14]

In the local elections in Rome, the Party initially was intended to elect as its own mayor, Josef Yemane Tewelde named "Jojo",[17][18] an Eritrean-Italian boy, technically not electable because he didn't have the Italian citizenship. Then, it joins the list Repubblica Romana and Sandro Medici as mayor,[19] collecting 720 votes (0.07%) and not gaining a seat. Initially there was the intention to candidate someone in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia regional elections,[20] but it didn't take part to elections.[21]